Week 2 in BD Class

We have had a really busy week. We have got started in our writing books. We have been learning to start our ideas with a capital letter and finish them with a full stop.

On Tuesday we made popcorn. It was really yummy. Mr D left the lid of and we thought it looked like a popcorn volcano, or a waterfall or a popcorn shower. Here are all our great ideas.

We have been learning to write the letter "a", "c" and "o". Here is how we practise our letters. We can practise these at home.

For maths, we have been doing some more sorting. We are trying to find different ways of grouping objects. This time we used the people counters. You can see how we grouped them by looking at the tick sheet in the photo.

We also collected some information about how many people we have in our families. We put them in a circle to make a pie graph.

Check out our class rules that we came up with. Everyone is trying really hard to make our class a great place to be.

04/02/14 Today in BD Class

We have had another great day today in BD Class. Jazmyn was our star of the day today.

This morning we did some grouping maths where we had to sort out different objects. We had to give a reason for sorting these out. Check out what we did. Click on a picture to make it bigger.

For PE today we were learning that to run properly we need to use our arms. We tried running with our arms by our sides and it felt funny. Now we are practising running straight.

Mrs Kibblewhite has been teaching us some brain gym exercises. We have learnt "Spider on a Mirror", "Lazy Eights" and "Crossover Crunches." These help to get our brains working.

Day 1 with BD Class

We had a great first day together in BD Class. It was great to see old friends and make some new ones too. We welcome Devlin to Discovery School.

We read the story T-Shirts. We came up with some other words that start with "sh". We learnt the story about Harry Hatman and Sammy Snake.

Anthony was our Star of the Day today. he gets to take Goliath home tonight. Well done to Devon and Devlin who got certificates at Syndicate Assembly. Well done guys. 

Week 6 in BD Class

It was another really busy week in BD Class. We had more people reach their next Nights Reading stickers. We done to Blake & Vincent (100), Maddison (125) and Harrison (150).

On Tuesday we went on a bear hunt with RG Class. We did this for our language experience this week. We had lots of fun singing the Bear Hunt song and walking around the neighborhood. Miss Griffin videoed our bear hunt. Check it out here.

After our bear hunt we did some writing about what we did. We were trying to tell a story by having a beginning, middle and an end.

We also watched the Three Little Pigs. We had a go at writing introductions to the story. We had to make sure we wrote about the characters, the setting and the problem. Here is what we watched and how we had a go at writing the introduction.

We also had a talk about times when we feel safe. We came up with some great ideas.

Weeks 4 and 5 in BD Class

We have had heaps of fun over the past two weeks in BD Class. We have done some great learning too. There have been lots of people who have got their next "Nights Reading" stickers.

Well done to: Makayla, Caleb and Mason (100 Nights), Holly (125 Nights) and Rebecca, Olivia, Harry and Zoe (150 Nights.) There are a whole lot of the class coming up who will be getting their next nights reading stickers real soon. Watch this space!

We have nearly finished learning all of our consonant blends. The latest ones we have been learning about have been:

Mr D and Mrs Berney have been really impressed with the writing we have been doing in class. It has been great to see everyone using their writing cards, checking their work and writing more ideas. We have also had some great fun doing some interesting language experiences. Last week we touched, smelt and ate jelly. It was great fun. We had a go at doing some descriptive writing.

We had some great fun with the story Pete the Cat and His White Shoes. We had fun singing the song and reading the book. We had a go at writing our own version of the story as well. Here is the author of Pete the Cat reading the story in a live performance.

We brainstormed all of the things that Pete the Cat could have walked through. We came up with some creative ideas.

For Discovery Time we had some great fun doing activities all about fairy tales. We had some great fun building sandcastles in the sand pit and making paper bag puppets.

For PE we have been doing gymnastics. We have been working with Abe from Big Air Gym. Check out what we have been up to.

Last week we had a visit from Madison C's granddad, Jim. He is a crime scene detective and he came to do some fingerprint stuff with the class. He showed us how to take fingerprints and how our fingerprints are all unique. It was really interesting. Oliver and Vincent checked out their fingerprints.